Andy,
I have found the migration tool to be lacking in refinement. For
instance, it won't set the admin account for each domain. It also will
import the root accounts from IMail, even if disabled, and it will pull
over their default passwords of "passwords" and enable those accounts
(these will likely be hacked and used if given enough time).
Essentially you will want to either go in and change the settings for
every account and every domain to what it should be, or just fix up one
domain and it's users, and then source that domain's config settings as
a template and use a search and replace tool to fix up all of your other
domains and accounts. It will work without doing all of this, but it
does create a mess to deal with. Also note that it will not import
calendar's.
Don't mess with SmarterMail's greylisting or spam blocking unless you
have less than 100 users. It won't keep up, and it's rather basic
compared to Declude.
I find SmarterMail to be pretty stable overall, and the interface is
fairly nice, though people will get confused by the location of the
submit buttons, so be prepared for these calls by webmail users if you
have them. Unfortunately you can't turn off some of the menus for
webmail users, so they will see things like spam filtering dialogs even
though they won't necessarily do anything. You will need to determine
how to integrate Declude, I believe that it can work within this system,
though sometimes that isn't wise since people would then have the tools
to cause themselves trouble.
Matt
Craig Edmonds wrote:
Thanks Andrew, you are a star!
Great advice and much appreciated.
Kindest Regards
Craig Edmonds
123 Marbella Internet
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*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Sent:* 11 December 2007 13:46
*To:* Craig Edmonds
*Subject:* Re: [Declude.JunkMail] upgrade/migrate from Imail 8.15 to
Smartermail
Hi,
Just got through doing the upgrade, a few things you should do/know.
1) cleanup imail email boxes before you run the migration
utility....it takes a lot longer if you don't.
2) smartermail requires using the full email address
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for logging in (pop3). By default, it's that
way with the web interface also.
3) get smartermail setup on IIS ASAP as opposed to the built in
smartermail web interface... you'll have performance issues otherwise
4) the default password rules in smartermail are for at least 5
character password and different username/pw (you can't use username
for the password for the account username). If you users with
shorter passwords, they'll have issues so you may want to change that
from the start.
5) declude is more tightly integrated with smartermail than
Imail...you're gonna like that :) Give declude a call and they'll
help you get that setup.
6) make sure you read the install/migration instructions carefully.
7) If you have dialup customers, they're not going to like you in the
beginning....smartermail web interface is more graphical/slower
8) there is a management learning curse...smartmail is different from
Imail. You'll like smartermail better after you learn to navigate.
The key here is to login as the admin first and learn to get around
from there.
Thanks,
Andrew Baldwin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.thumpernet.com
315-282-0020
Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 3:25:04 AM, you wrote:
>
The time has come to dump Imail 8.15 which has been pretty solid but
due to CBL.ABUSE picking on me for using Imail 8.15 I need to get rid
of imail and I cant upgrade to Imail 2006 so Smartermail is looking
like the best option for now. (basically cbl said "you have to upgrade
your imail....we don't care if it costs you money")
I have two dedicated mail servers on windows I need to upgrade.
Has anyone been through the migration process of Imail to smartermail
and is there much involved?
Also, I run declude, do I have to make many changes to that also and
does anyone know if there is a cost for that?
Any advice on this would be appreciated.
Kindest Regards
Craig Edmonds
123 Marbella Internet
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